I just tried to build on my failures.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.